Anagrams

how many symbolic ties to women are hidden throughout these famous pieces of artwork. Throughout the novel it is discovered that the Mona Lisa is actually an anagram for the name Amon L'Isa, who is the Egyptian god and goddess of fertility. Just as Langdon said "not only does the face of the Mona Lisa look androgynous, but her name is an anagram of the divine union of male and female" (121). She is also said to have represented the sacred feminine and balance between sexes. Therefore this means…

simple experimental group. Dependant on their complexity, participants were given four (simple) or twelve (complex) different attributes describing four hypothetical cars. Before deciding which car was the best, the UT group were distracted with an anagram, while CT participants were asked to deliberate their decision for four minutes. Despite results, when directly comparing unconscious to conscious deliberation, not being statistically significant (P<.08) Dijksterhuis et al. (2006)…

the American mind as largely guided by the philosophies of Puritans. An experiment performed with both Americans and Canadians with some test subjects exposed to ideas of salvation resulted in “the Americans — but not the Canadians — [solving] more anagrams with salvation on the mind.” This…

India is a country with huge population. However, some people have achieved great sucess through their hard work and abilities. Let’s learn about some of these famous personalities. Homonyms are words that sound like one another but have different meanings. Synonyms are words with similar meanings while antonyms are words with opposite meaning. India is a huge country with different climates and geographic regions. Let’s explore some interesting facts about our country. Religion in India is…

“What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?” This is one of the few dilemmas Colin Singleton faces in John Green’s coming-of-age young adult novel An Abundance of Katherines. Colin is an anagram-loving seventeen-year-old boy who has a deep love for girls named Katherine. He was a child-prodigy with an IQ of over 200, and now he struggles with his individuality and what his future holds for him, and whether that means he will be declared a genius. After…

Quicksand is a novel written by Nella Larsen who was a novelist during the Harlem Renaissance. She relates her issues of growing up with problems of race and sexual identity into this short story. The story is a satire of the movie Rosenwald. Rosenwald is about a white man who is placed inside many black schools located in the American South. Quicksand begins with a mixed race woman teaching in a black school in the south. These two stories both show what happens when race, wealth, and power all…

progress toward success.” (Psychology and Life, 20th Edition, Richard J. Gerrig, Stony Brook University) An example of analytical intelligence, as used in the text (Psychology and Life, 20th Edition, Richard J. Gerrig, Stony Brook University), are anagrams. Anagrams are scrambled words that can be put together mentally using components number two and three. Component two is what enables you two see what letters go where to form a word, and component three is what allows you to use problem…

Jefferson, and he lived on a farm in Iowa with his family and now his dog Abe. Although he lived on a farm, Jefferson was not particularly fond of hard labor. Jefferson was an intellectual, and he prefered to spend his time solving puzzles and creating anagrams. Abe appreciated his owner’s brightness, but Jefferson’s parents wanted their son to help on the family farm and eventually inherit it. However, after spending all his free time on word puzzles, he had developed severe myopia. Abe wished…

Brandi Smith Dr. Alisa Clapp-Itnyre English L392 November 19, 2015 The Use of Mythology in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling is filled with hints toward Greek, medieval, and Biblical literature, as well as other folklore. Through her conscious use of past archetypes, Rowling displays an expansive intellect that readers many not notice during their first read-through of the series. Rowling uses her knowledge of these classics in the naming of the…

Angels & Demon and the The Vinci Code? Do you know the Secret of the Holy Grail that discussed in the Book 'The Vinci Code'? Usually in Holy Mass Catholics they would raise this so-called Holly Grail and inside this Grail is the Chalice which they refer as the blood of Jesus. But of course people will think of it so hard until they will seek an answer is that what Jesus really meant? Take a look at the picture I posted with this. It was painted by Leonardo da Vinci, the famous Leonardo we all…